VOG have won their first battle, and what a battle it was. Both teams set out with relatively centralised deployments, with some light early aggression from both sides resulting in no real gain. Eventually VOG performed a strong skirmish operation in the back of RPX frontline to disrupt supplies and FOBs. While this had little immediate impact on the stable RPX frontline, it allowed VOG to follow up with another encirclement, wreaking havoc among the RPX line, leading to the flag and the surrounding area being mostly cleared. RPX reacted quickly to this, forcing a quick offensive on the flag to retake a foothold near the flag, barely preventing VOG from raising their own banner. As VOG had no time to fortify their positions, and with the strategically important flag a valuable boon for both teams, they had to commit just as much as RPX now. This led to over a half hour of intense close quarters infantry fighting, with no clearly discernable front line . Neither side can truly say they won that fight but with reinforcements running low, RPX managed to barely retake their lost flag to secure those extra 25 points on the scoreboard.